Asylum

Seabrook, William

Harcourt, Brace and company, 1935

First edition, in handsome dust jacket.  Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear to dj. Good binding and cover. xiii, 263 pages ; 21 cm. Clean, unmarked pages. In this personal "adventure story" William Seabrook voluntarily checked himself in at a Westchester mental hospital in the early 1930s for eight-months for alcoholism.  His account looks at addiction and treatment in the days before Alcoholics Anonymous and the state of mental hospitals in the early 20th century. William Seabrook is most famous for introducing the word Zombie to Western culture.